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Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> I am sure that you know them. But those problems are the reasons why more and |
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> more developers are demotivated and leaving Gentoo. 'Fixing' those problems |
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> should be a N1 priority on every gentoo council meeting until they are gone. |
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> There is absolutely no point in trying to introduce new features and stuff when |
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> we are so understaffed. First we need to bring more people on Gentoo and keep |
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> the current manpower motivated. When we are done with that, we can focus on |
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> features :\ |
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While I see where you are coming from, I can't agree with the approach |
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of halting all forward movement until all current issues are resolved. |
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The problem is that we're a volunteer-driven organization, so we can't |
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simply tell people "close STABLEREQ bugs first, work on fun stuff |
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later". We can certainly encourage people to do this, but there will |
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ALWAYS be more maintenance items and I think we'll do better to keep |
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Gentoo exciting and dynamic and try to attract more help, and then there |
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will be more bodies around to take care of the grind of bugs. |
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Essentially features are what keeps a significant portion of the current |
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manpower motivated. |
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Now, there are lots of people around who actually like doing maintenance |
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and caring for specific packages, and we should certainly try to find |
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more people like this. However, those who would rather be implementing |
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new EAPIs in Portage/Paludis/Pkgcore/whatever won't necessarily work on |
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arch bugs just because there is a need for this. |
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I think the best we can do is try to highlight the issues so that those |
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who are interested are aware of them and can sign up to help. |
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I'd also love to see the council and trustees actively looking for |
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solutions to these problems, but it can't be the only issue on the agenda. |
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I've never been big on the whole "Gentoo is dying" meme. All people and |
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organizations are dying - we're all born dying. Death is just the |
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natural state of the universe in the absence of life. Even if Gentoo |
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were perfect and full of activity we would have people leaving for |
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various reasons - the key is to have people coming in to replace and |
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even surpass those who leave. Gentoo has a LOT to offer the linux |
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community - and if anything I'd say the level of innovation in Gentoo |
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(and related projects) has been trending upwards in recent months. |
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